[Martin Elster]

Thanks to Robin Helweg-Larsen, who invited me to share a poem again, I've got one at Form in Formless Times today called "The Woolly Bear."

https://formalverse.com/2021/12/08/p...e-woolly-bear/

I hope people will enjoy it. Thanks again, Robin.

[Ann Drysdale]

Nice one, Martin.

And it's about time we all raised a virtual glass to Robin, whose blog has kept giving us such occasional delights all through these interesting times. I look forward to their arrival in my inbox. Cheers, Robin.

[Joe Crocker]

Robin also appears in the new winter edition of The Orchards Journal (as does my Sisyphus villanelle and poems by other 'Spherians such as Terese Coe)

(and I also subscribe to and enjoy his blog)

[Martin Elster]

Thanks, Ann and Joe.

I'm going to look at The Orchards. Thanks for the link.
Congrats to Joe, Terese, and Robin!

[Susan McLean]

I, too, have a poem posted on Robin's blog:

https://formalverse.com/2021/12/11/p...an-deep-cover/

Thanks, Joe, for tipping me off that the new issue of The Orchards Poetry Journal is out. I have enjoyed reading the poems in it.

Susan

[F.F. Teague]

Congratulations, everyone

Susan, I really enjoyed reading your villanelle, and also what you have to say about it, especially this:

"Though we live in a time in which free verse is dominant and ubiquitous, I don't think people will ever lose their innate love of the songlike in poetry, a quality that also makes poems easier to remember."

Best wishes,
Fliss